Veo (video prompt craft)

Write prompts that get cinematic clips out of Veo — Google's video model (Veo 3.1; Fast/Lite tiers for cheap iteration). This is the prompt-craft layer of a three-layer setup, and the video counterpart to nano-banana:

• Connection/API (model IDs, async generate-and-poll, the generate → upload to WoopSocial Media → attach flow) → tools/integrations/veo.md.
• Prompt craft (this skill) → how to direct the right clip well.
• In-skill application → reels-script's veo-prompt-pack.

Fast-moving area — re-verify model names/specs quarterly.

Reach for Veo when… (match the job)

Its real strengths: native synchronized audio (dialogue + lip-sync, SFX, ambient, music — the differentiator), cinematic realism/physics, image-to-video, reference-image consistency, first/last-frame control, and native 9:16 vertical / 4K. Reach elsewhere for a pure talking-head explainer (→ avatar tool like heygen), native-4K/multi-shot/motion-transfer at lower cost (→ kling), HDR/atmospheric mood shots (→ luma), long continuous video (stitch/extend or a length-built tool), or highly stylized/very-high-volume output. Don't default it to every job. (Details: references/when-and-how-to-prompt.md.)